Ray Douglas recently photographed this lovely dragonfly, a Flame Skimmer.

Ray and I wondered about the yellow color at the top of the dragonfly's wings. Dragonfly expert, Kathy Biggs, to the rescue. She said Ray photographed a female.

For comparison, here is what I believe is a male. He nicely landed on a sprinkler head and I got this photo.

I wrote an article for Sonoma Magazine's summer edition about where to see dragonflies. You can read it at this link: http://sonomamagazine.ca.newsmemory.com/?selDate=20190701&editionStart=Sonoma+Magazine&goTo=040

Thanks to Ray for allowing me to share his photo with you here.

It's sunny and warm at our place in Anchor Bay, though a fog bank lurks over the ocean!